Issue 71 - December 2003

Cover Photo: Here’s hoping you find what you are looking for in your stocking this Christmas. The Team for 2003 wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Inside:

• Ann Hughes describes how she was Runner Up In Zee Zumerzet Puzzle.
• Martin Dennett explains why the Somerset countryside has positively buzzed with activity in recent weeks.
• Paul Harkin describes how he solved Charlie’s Summer Spell and dispatched Martin to retrieve the pearl.
• Member Profile this issue focuses on Simon Jacobs.
• Zee Christmas Carolz is offered as a festive puzzle by Roger Lintott.
• Charles Cunningham brings us Questions Not Answers about Stepping Stones.

Issue 70 - October 2003

Cover Photo: Squire Clive Trelawney, Long John Perry, Dr Matt Livesey, Lady Alison, Captain Shaun Smollett and Mikey Jim-Lad Smith gather outside Brooksby Hall near Melton Mowbray.

Inside:

• There's lots to get excited about as Brian Souter introduces not one, not two but five new treasure hunts.
• The Whistle Pig by Duck Miller is reviewed by Clive Weatherley in Tales of the UnexPIGted.
• Paul Corby reveals all in Member Profile.
• Shaun Whitehead brings us an account of this year's September Event in Treasure Island Tales.

Issue 69 - August 2003

Cover Photo: Clive Weatherley examines the Text4Treasure prize he found at the base of a sycamore tree adjacent to the Wellington Monument in Hyde Park, London.

Inside:

• Brian Souter brings news of The Da Vinci Code.
• Ann Hughes offers an additional clue to solving the 2002 Club Hunt, A Monkish Plot.
• Finally, we are able to include the Member Profile for Shirley Haigh.
• Shaun Whitehead brings us news of the September Event in A Letter from Captain Smollett.
• The solutions to Text4Treasure 2 are provided by hunt setter, Shaun Whitehead.
• Jan Rogers reveals how a small team of dedicated treasure hunters finally called house on Dave Blakeway’s hunt.
• And Dave reveals how it was done in Easy Peasy Solution.

Issue 68 - June 2003

Cover Photo: Clive Weatherley celebrates success in this year's Spring Event

Inside:

• Roger Lintott brings us an update on A Springtime Holiday and describes the prize.
• We have High Drama in Herne Bay as Clive Weatherley brings us an account of this year’s Spring Event.
• For those of you still searching Dartmoor, Clive also brings us Club Letterbox - The Solution.
• Shaun Whitehead brings us the solution to his very successful Text4Treasure ...
• ... and brings us news of Text4Treasure2.
• Shaun reminds us in Masquerade Memorial that we need to firm up on our plans to commemorate the birth of armchair treasure hunting.
• News of this year’s September Event is brought to us by the organiser, Shaun Whitehead.

Issue 67 - April 2003

Cover Photo: Shaun Whitehead launches a trial hunt using mobile text messaging

Inside:

• Sandra Young opens the curtains on A Thespian Mystery and whets your appetite for a day out in Herne Bay.
• As if a Spring Event is not enough, Roger Lintott brings us A Springtime Holiday treasure hunt.
• We have an account of strange goings on as the successful team at the Spring Event in York 2002 finally experience the Sweet Smell of... Envelopes!
• Private treasure hunts abound as Shaun Whitehead describes the Pyramid Quest set for him and his wife, Alison, by Alan Gregory.
• An important update on Smugglers Gold is provided by hunt setter, Shaun Whitehead.
• Featuring strongly in the April issue, Shaun brings us news of his latest experimental treasure hunt in Text4Treasure.

Issue 66 - February 2003

Cover Photo: Club Hunt 2003 will be launched in August and is being set in four areas of the UK.

Inside:

• Sandra Young formats Dave Blakeway’s latest hunt, Simple Knowledge.
• Mike Smith provides the solution to A Christmas Treasure.
• Nick Perry, WebMaster, drums up a bit of business in Spinning The Web.
• At last we get round to publishing the Member Profile for Susanne Stacey.
• Minnesota Obsessives is an extract from a recent article in The Times about what our friends across the pond have been getting up to since 1952.
• Brian is unable to come up with a title for his article on this year’s club hunts, but does reveal some of the thinking behind the decision to stage four hunts.

Plus regular features:

• Newsletter News - by Brian Souter
• Yakkety Yak - by Sandra Young
• Puzzle Pages - by Ann Hughes
• Bulletin Board - by Charles Cunningham
• Letterbox - edited by Shaun Whitehead